Nov 04, '09 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: SeanAhern
There's a way around this. Instead of pressing Delete, press Option-Delete. With this shortcut (which doesn't show up in the Edit menu), Mail deletes the currently-displayed message and then does nothing at all, and the next message is not displayed. This is exactly what I want -- I now must explicitly tell Mail when I want a message to be displayed.
I expect I can make this the default using the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard System Preferences panel, but I have yet to play with that.
[robg adds: It doesn't appear you can change the shortcut for Delete to Option-Delete, because OS X won't let you use the Delete key as part of a shortcut.]
